2014 AWP schedule

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2014 AWP Conference Schedule

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Tiferet Journal is delighted to welcome you to AWP Seattle 2014 with a first night offsite reading. Join us for an evening of poetry, prose, art, and conversation.

Our fabulous readers include Alicia Ostriker, Aliki Barnstone, Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Amy King, Tony Barnstone, Ami Kaye, Bill Kenower, Donna Baier Stein, and Melissa Studdard.

Free Event
$5 Gallery Donation Suggested
Wine and beer will be served

Wednesday, Feb 26, 6-8 pm,
Ghost Gallery
504 E Denny Way (at Olive).

Enter through the courtyard behind the St. Florence Apt Bldg facing Olive Way

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

 

12:00 pm to 7:00 pm

  

W100. Conference Registration

Registration Area, Washington State Convention Center

Attendees who have registered in advance may pick up their registration materials in AWP’s preregistered

check-in area, located in the registration area on level 4 of the Washington State Convention Center. If you

have not yet registered for the conference, please visit the unpaid registration area, also in the registration

area on level 4. Please consult the bookfair map in the conference planner for location details. Students must

present a valid student ID to check-in or register at our student rate. Seniors must present a valid ID to

register at our senior rate. A $50 fee will be charged for all replacement badges.

 

Thursday, February 27, 2014

 

8:30 am to 6:00 pm

  

R101. AWP Bookfair, Sponsored by Hollins University: Jackson Center for Creative Writing

North & South Exhibit Halls, Washington State Convention Center

With more than 650 literary exhibitors the AWP bookfair is the largest of its kind. A great way to meet authors,

critics, and peers, the bookfair also provides excellent opportunities to find information about many literary

magazines, presses, and organizations. Please consult the bookfair map in the conference planner for location

details.

 

1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

  

R207. Out of the Classroom: Possible Adventures in Creative Writing

Room 611, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6

 

(Philip Graham, Dinty W. Moore, John Warner, Harmony Neal)

This panel chronicles the strategies of four teachers of fiction and nonfiction who assign

undergraduate students to go on “adventures” outside of the classroom and their comfort zone: attending

roller derby games or a quarter horse competition, visiting a pet cemetery, going on a "coyote watch," taking

tango classes, etc. These assignments encourage students to see how “plot” works in real life (instead of in

television narratives) and how easily they can generate material for their writing.

 

3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

  

R234. Breaking Silences: Women’s Memoir as an Act of Rebellion

Room 607, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6

 

(Janice Gary, Kate Hopper, Anna March, Connie May Fowler, Rosemary Daniell)

Pregnancy. Rape. Motherhood. Domestic violence. Tillie Olsen writes: Why are more women silenced than

men? The women on this panel also ask: why, when women write about the full experience of being female in

this culture are our stories seen as less worthy of literary merit than those of male counterparts? We’ll

address our experiences with writing taboo subjects and discuss the conscious and unconscious biases that

keep women from the transgressive act of writing honestly about their lives.

 

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

  

William Stafford Anthology Reading and Celebration

  

Caffe Ladro, 801 Pine St, Seattle, WA 98101

Cost: Free

 

Url: http://www.facebook.com/events/494182720637610/

In celebration of the William Stafford Centennial and the release of the anthology A Ritual to Read Together, a

celebration and reading will take place at Caffe Ladro. We also dedicate the reading in memory of Dorothy

Stafford. Anthology readers include: Fred Marchant, Kim Stafford, GC Waldrep, Ellen Bass, and more.

 

Friday, February 28, 2014

 

9:00 am to 10:15 am

  F111. The New Translation: Writing through Rewriting

Room 3A, Washington State Convention Center, Level 3

(Joe Milutis, Paul Legault, Craig Dworkin, Clark Lunberry)

Experimental translation techniques have taken up attitudes toward the nature of the original that complicate

or conflict with more dutiful notions of translation. From the carefully oblique to the wildly discrepant, we are

interested in techniques of translation that seek to heighten the noise that exists at the fragile moment of

cultural transfer. This panel will speak both to the long tradition of these kinds of techniques as well as

incarnations potentiated by new media.

 

F112. The Poetic Sentence

Room 3B, Washington State Convention Center, Level 3

 

(Sasha Steensen, Dan Beachy-Quick, Elizabeth Robinson, Laynie Browne, Srikanth Reddy)

The effects of the line, as the fundamental unit of poetry, often trump those of the sentence. Yet, the

sentence is so often present in the poem, albeit enjambed, interrupted, and infused with space. In recent

years, poets have been investigating the tensions and energies of the sentence in fascinating ways. In this

panel, poets will explore how incorporating the prose sentence into their poems works to re-envision both the

formal (line, syntax, and rhythm) and semantic textures of the poem.

 

10:30 am to 11:45 am

  

F143. New Poetry from Omnidawn Publishing

Robert Muroff Bookfair Stage, Washington State Convention Center, Level 4

 

(Craig Santos Perez, Julie Carr, Gillian Conoley, Endi Bogue Hartigan, Karla Kelsey)

Please join us for a reading to celebrate Omnidawn’s Spring 2014 poetry titles! The Moderator will be Craig

Santos Perez, who will say a few words about Omnidawn. Q&A will follow the readings.

 

F158. When a Poem Can't Tell the Whole Story: Why Poets are Taking up Nonfiction

Room 101, Western New England MFA Annex, Level 1

 

(Danielle Deulen, Katharine Coles, Gregory Orr, Julia Koets, Linwood Rumney)

As creative nonfiction becomes more popular and expands to push against the boundaries of convention,

poets increasingly adopt it as a second genre. Five poets who also write nonfiction and who are at various

stages in their careers discuss nonfiction from the poet’s perspective. How does working in two genres

change the way we think about craft? How does writing in a second genre open up career opportunities in a

difficult job market?

 

12:00 pm to 1:15 pm

  

F176. A Shapelesse Flame: The Nature of Poetry and Desire

Scott James Bookfair Stage, Washington State Convention Center, Level 4

 

(Gerard Woodward, Tim Liardet, Carrie Etter, Danielle Pafunda, Arielle Greenberg)

Desire, said Coleridge, is the reflex of our earthly frame. But when it comes to the writing of contemporary

poetry, exactly what is the nature of desire? Is a successful poem an example of life’s longing for itself, driven

by independent will? How is the energy of a poem like human desire itself? How can human desire best be

expressed in poetry? This panel of two American poets and two UK poets will attempt to engage in a dialogue

on these important questions.

 

1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

   

Author Signing: Zucker, Rachel

Organization Name: Virginia Tech MFA Program

Spot: N9

1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

  

F223. In Your Next Letter I Wish You’d Say: Epistolary Impulse and Innovation

Room 615/616/617, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6

 

(Jenny Browne, Mark Jarman, Paul Guest, Laynie Browne, Idra Novey)

While Congress and the U.S. Postal Service debate ending Saturday delivery and many mourn the lost art of

letter writing, contemporary poets continue to explore and expand the artful possibilities of writing in the

epistolary mode. These panelists investigate exciting variations of poetic correspondence, including

collaboration, homage, and performance, as well as discuss their own epistolary processes, influences, and

teaching strategies.

 

F230. Mixed Methods: Collaboration Between Visual Art and Contemporary Poetry

Room 302, Western New England MFA Annex, Level 3

 

(Allison Campbell, Cole Swensen, Timothy Liu, Bianca Stone, Brandon Downing)

When poetry and image intersect, what changes occur in both art forms? How is the artist’s process, and the

reader’s experience altered when poetry and image enter into conversation with each other? Panelists will 

explore these questions and discuss how the two art forms can compliment, complete, and even translate

each other. Poets who have published collaborative projects, or created poetry that incorporates self-made

visuals, will discuss their work.

 

3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

  

F259. When Genres Collide: Teaching Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction

Room LL4, Western New England MFA Annex, Lower Level

 

(Katie Manning, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Forrest Roth, Tyrone Jaeger, John Talbird)

The collision of prose poetry and flash fiction can provide productive and challenging points of discussion and

inspiration in the multi-genre classroom. What can prose poetry teach flash fiction? How can theories of

narrative inform understandings of prose poetry? Join our panel of writer-teachers for a discussion about how

to navigate the sometimes blurry boundary between prose poetry and flash fiction in the undergraduate

classroom.

 

4:30 pm to 5:00 pm

   

Author Signing: King, Amy

Organization Name: The Rooster Moans Poetry Cooperative

Spot: T3

6:00 pm to 10:00 pm

  

Bloof + Saturnalia at Jewelbox Theater at Rendezvous

  

Jewelbox Theater, Rendezvous Restaurant and Lounge, 2322 2nd Ave Seattle, WA 98121

Cost: Free

 

Url: https://www.facebook.com/events/393647637420512/

Readers include Daniel Borzutzky, Kendra DeColo, Natalie Eilbert, Dorothea Lasky, Timothy Liu, Danielle

Pafunda, Martha Silano, Sandra Simonds & Elisabeth Workman. Music by Rebecca Loudon. Hosted by Shanna

Compton & Henry Israeli.

 

Saturday, March 1, 2014

 

10:30 am to 11:45 am

  

S139. Research in the Workshop: Teaching Documentary Literature

Room 2B, Washington State Convention Center, Level 2

 

(Joseph Harrington, Cole Swensen, Jena Osman, Eleni Sikelianos, Susan M. Schultz)

Historical literature has become more popular in recent years in all genres, and it is showing up in more

college literature courses. But how can we integrate historical research into the workshop? How does such

work change our understanding of the nature of conducting research and of creative writing pedagogy? These

questions will be addressed by panelists who are teachers and writers of research-based literature.

 

12:00 pm to 1:15 pm

  

S190. The Myth of the Inaccessible: Teaching Experimental Poetry in the Community

Room 101, Western New England MFA Annex, Level 1

 

(Laura Walker, Dana Teen Lomax, Douglas Kearney, Hoa Nguyen, Sarah Rosenthal)

Poetry that may refuse a coherent I, eschew narrative, play with language as material, or otherwise subvert

notions of traditional poetry is often deemed "inaccessible" or "academic." What happens when these poetries

are taught in community or K-12 programs? Five poets will talk about their great success teaching innovative

poetry outside the academy, their pedagogy, student responses, and their compelling rationales for their

practice.

 

1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

  

S206. Jack Kerouac School 40th Anniversary Reading

Patricia Olson Bookfair Stage, Washington State Convention Center, Level 4

 

(Andrea Rexilius, Michelle Naka Pierce, J'Lyn Chapman, Anne Waldman)

Come celebrate the 40th anniversary of Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics!

 

S211. But Is It Any Good? Appropriation and Evaluation

Room 608, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6

 

(Jessica Burstein, Brian Reed, Marjorie Perloff, Danny Snelson, Craig Dworkin)

Contemporary poets frequently “borrow” other people’s words. They employ appropriation, collage, sampling,

and outright plagiarism. What do we make, though, of all this copying, cutting, and pasting? Is lifting text from 

a Web page or retyping a novel over Twitter in any way comparable to sitting down and trying to put "the

best words in the best order" (Coleridge)? And when writers “steal” instead of “write,” how can we tell a good

poem from a bad one? What criteria should we use?

 

4:30 pm to 5:45 pm

  

S265. Uncreative & Unoriginal: Notes on Conceptual Writing

Room 400, Washington State Convention Center, Level 4

 

(Devon Wootten, Catherine Wagner, Marie Buck, Noah Eli Gordon, K. Silem Mohammad)

The poet Kenneth Goldsmith posits conceptual writing as a response to the digitization of language. For

Goldsmith, the unparalleled linguistic materiality of our digital age necessitates a different conception of the

"poetic.” In contrast to more traditional poetics, conceptual writing de-centers the writing subject with

strategies such as collage, excision, and appropriation. This panel asks what conceptual writing might teach

us about beauty, originality, and the creative process.

 

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

  

Alice Blue + Bloof + Coconut at the Pine Box

  

The Pine Box, 1600 Melrose Ave. Seattle WA 98122

Cost: Free

 

Url: https://www.facebook.com/events/540652019364376/

Tyler Brewington

Jackie Clark

Shanna Compton

Mel Coyle

Bruce Covey

Ben Fama

Hailey Higdon

Megan Kaminski

Jiyoon Lee

Joseph Mains

Pattie McCarthy

Amanda Montei

Amber Nelson

Jenn Marie Nunes

Alexis Pope

Dawn Sueoka

Jennifer Tamayo

Ellen Welcker

Joseph P Wood

Wendy Xu and Nick Sturm

 

8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

  

S284. A Reading by Jane Hirshfield and Sharon Olds, Sponsored by the Academy of American

Poets

   

Ballroom E, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6

(Jennifer Benka, Jane Hirshfield, Sharon Olds)

The Academy of American Poets presents a reading by award-winning poets Jane Hirshfield and Sharon Olds

who will read from their respective works. Hirshfield received the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Award in American

 

Poetry in 2012. Her book Given Sugar, Given Salt was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Olds is

the author of Stag's Leap, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013. Jennifer Benka, Executive Director of the

Academy of American Poets, will introduce the readers.

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014 View Full Schedule
12:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Registration Area, Washington State Convention Center	W100. Conference Registration. Attendees who have registered in advance may pick up their registration materials in AWP’s preregistered check-in area, located in the registration area on level 4 of the Washington State Convention Center. If you have not yet registered for the conference, please visit the unpaid registration area, also in the registration area on level 4. Please consult the bookfair map in the conference planner for location details. Students must present a valid student ID to check-in or register at our student rate. Seniors must present a valid ID to register at our senior rate. A $50 fee will be charged for all replacement badges.
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Tiferet Journal is delighted to welcome you to AWP Seattle 2014 with a first night offsite reading. Join us for an evening of poetry, prose, art, and conversation. Our fabulous readers include Alicia Ostriker, Aliki Barnstone, Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Amy King, Tony Barnstone, Ami Kaye, Bill Kenower, Donna Baier Stein, and Melissa Studdard. Free Event $5 Gallery Donation Suggested Wine and beer will be served Wednesday, Feb 26, 6-8 pm, Ghost Gallery 504 E Denny Way (at Olive). Enter through the courtyard behind the St. Florence Apt Bldg facing Olive Way https://www.facebook.com/events/1378837095715068/ Thursday, February 27, 2014 View Full Schedule
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North & South Exhibit Halls, Washington State Convention Center	R101. AWP Bookfair, Sponsored by Hollins University: Jackson Center for Creative Writing. With more than 650 literary exhibitors the AWP bookfair is the largest of its kind. A great way to meet authors, critics, and peers, the bookfair also provides excellent opportunities to find information about many literary magazines, presses, and organizations. Please consult the bookfair map in the conference planner for location details.
8:00 am breakfast with Joe 9:00 am to 10:15 am
Room 606, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6	R116. Eco-Spectacular Vision: Post-pastoral Poetics in the 21st Century. (Ravi Shankar,  G.C. Waldrep,  Arielle Greenberg,  Melissa Tuckey,  Marcella Durand ) Somewhere between when Frank O'Hara wrote "it is more important to affirm the least sincere; the clouds get enough attention as it is and even they continue to pass" to Jane Griffiths writing in Orion that "a series of artifices has caused climate collapse," a paradigm of poetics has shifted in ways that shake the roots of the pastoral away from myths of Arcadia to what William Empson has written is “the process of putting the complex into the simple." Five vital poets and editors explore. Ravi Shankar is Executive Director of Drunken Boat and the author/editor/publisher of eight books or chapbooks of poetry, including W.W. Norton & Co's Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the MIddle East & Beyond. He teaches at CCSU and City University of Hong Kong. G.C. Waldrep’s most recent books are Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, a lyric collaboration with John Gallaher; The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, co-edited with Joshua Corey; and a chapbook, Susquehanna. He teaches at Bucknell University and edits West Branch. Arielle Greenberg is co-author of Home/Birth: A Poemic; author of My Kafka Century and Given; and co-editor of three anthologies, including Gurlesque. She teaches in the University of Tampa MFA and out of her home and writes a column on poetics for the American Poetry Review. Melissa Tuckey's book Tenuous Chapel was chosen by Charles Simic for the 2012 ABZ First Book Poetry Prize. Her work has been recognized with support from DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Ohio Arts Council, and by the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Marcella Durand’s most recent books are Deep Eco Pre, a collaboration with Tina Darragh; AREA; and Traffic & Weather, a site-specific poem written during a residency at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in downtown Manhattan.
Room LL4, Western New England MFA Annex, Lower Level	R123. Teaching Brief, Sudden, Flash, and Very Short Prose. (Raul Moreno,  Meagan Cass,  Damian Dressick,  Sara Henning,  Steve Pacheco) With The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction now a familiar text among college-level instructors and an international anthology of very short fiction due out from Norton, questions about best approaches to attempting brief prose abound. If this can be a good way to teach writing, as anthologist Robert Shapard suggests, how do students negotiate the new horizons of genre and form? Five instructors offer lessons from workshops, grading, new media, doctoral research, and more. Raul Benjamin Moreno is a doctoral student at the University of South Dakota, where he teaches advanced writing courses and edits nonfiction for South Dakota Review. His essays and journalism have been published by The Normal School, The Millions, and NPR. Meagan Cass is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois Springfield, where she directs the creative writing program. Her fiction has recently appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, the Pinch, and Puerto Del Sol. She is an assistant editor for Sundress Publications. Damian Dressick teaches writing at Robert Morris University. His work has appeared in nearly fifty literary journals, including failbetter.com, New Delta Review, Alimentum, McSweeney's (online), Caketrain, Smokelong Quarterly, and Contrary magazine. Sara Henning is a doctoral student at the University of South Dakota, where she serves as managing editor for South Dakota Review. The author of two collections of poetry, A Sweeter Water and To Speak of Dahlias, her work appears in such journals as Verse, Willow Springs, and Crab Orchard Review. Steve Pacheco is an author in the anthology Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets. He also served as guest editor for the Yellow Medicine Review. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at Southwest Minnesota State University, where he teaches writing and literature.
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Room 611, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6	R176. Translating Radical Women Poets. (Stefania Heim,  Don Mee Choi,  Jen Hofer,  Jennifer Scappettone,  Jennifer Kronovet) This panel focuses on the historical and political importance, practical complexity, and artistic excitement of translating the work of radical women poets. Panelists explore what constitutes radical poetics in different countries and how they can be brought from one language, literary tradition, or culture to another. We also discuss how these women poets interact with larger forces, opening up new ways to speak and think here and now about poetics, politics, and gender. Stefania Heim is author of A Table that Goes on for Miles. Founding Editor of CIRCUMFERENCE: Poetry in Translation, she teaches at Columbia, Hunter, and Deep Springs College. Don Mee Choi is the author of The Morning News Is Exciting and the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award. She also translates contemporary Korean women’s poetry and has recently received the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize for All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon. Jen Hofer is a poet, translator, interpreter, and co-founder of Antena, dedicated to language justice and literary activism. Her latest poetry translations are Ivory Black by Myriam Moscona and books by Dolores Durantes. Her hand-stitched poems include "Shroud" (w/Jill Magi) and "The Missing Link." Jennifer Scappettone is the author of From Dame Quickly and of several chapbooks. Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli, which she translated, was awarded the Raiziss/De Palchi Book Prize by the Academy of American Poets. She is associate professor at the University of Chicago. Jennifer Kronovet is the author of the poetry collection Awayward and the co-translator of In Her White Wake, the selected poems of Yiddish writer Celia Dropkin. She co-founded Circumference, the journal of poetry in translation.
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Caffe Ladro, 801 Pine St, Seattle, WA 98101	William Stafford Anthology Reading and Celebration Cost: Free Url: http://www.facebook.com/events/494182720637610/ In celebration of the William Stafford Centennial and the release of the anthology A Ritual to Read Together, a celebration and reading will take place at Caffe Ladro. We also dedicate the reading in memory of Dorothy Stafford. Anthology readers include: Fred Marchant, Kim Stafford, GC Waldrep, Ellen Bass, and more.
Friday, February 28, 2014 View Full Schedule
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Room 3A, Washington State Convention Center, Level 3	F111. The New Translation: Writing through Rewriting. (Joe Milutis,  Paul Legault,  Craig Dworkin,  Clark Lunberry) Experimental translation techniques have taken up attitudes toward the nature of the original that complicate or conflict with more dutiful notions of translation. From the carefully oblique to the wildly discrepant, we are interested in techniques of translation that seek to heighten the noise that exists at the fragile moment of cultural transfer. This panel will speak both to the long tradition of these kinds of techniques as well as incarnations potentiated by new media. Joe Milutis is faculty in the MFA in Cultural Poetics at University of Washington-Bothell, where he also teaches Interdisciplinary Arts. He is the author of Failure, A Writer's Life; Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything; as well as a wide range of essays, poetry, and multimedia. Paul Legault is Writer in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of The Emily Dickinson Reader, The Other Poems, and The Madeleine Poems; and the co-founder of the translation press Telephone Books. Craig Dworkin is the author of five books of poetry, numerous chapbooks and two book-length critical studies. He has also edited five collections. Currently teaching literature at the University of Utah, he serves as senior editor to the online digital archive Eclipse. Clark Lunberry is an associate professor of English at the University of North Florida. His interdisciplinary scholarship has been published widely. He is also an installation poet who has undertaken many "writing on water/writing on air" projects at sites around the world.
Room 3B, Washington State Convention Center, Level 3	F112. The Poetic Sentence. (Sasha Steensen,  Dan Beachy-Quick,  Elizabeth Robinson,  Laynie Browne,  Srikanth Reddy) The effects of the line, as the fundamental unit of poetry, often trump those of the sentence. Yet, the sentence is so often present in the poem, albeit enjambed, interrupted, and infused with space. In recent years, poets have been investigating the tensions and energies of the sentence in fascinating ways. In this panel, poets will explore how incorporating the prose sentence into their poems works to re-envision both the formal (line, syntax, and rhythm) and semantic textures of the poem. Sasha Steensen is the author of A Magic Book, The Method, and House of Deer. Recent work has appeared in Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, Free Verse, and La Petit Zine. She edits Bonfire Press and serves as a poetry editor for Colorado Review. Dan Beachy-Quick is the author of five books of poems, most recently Circle's Apprentice, and two collection of prose, A Whaler's Dictionary and Wonderful Investigations. He teaches in the MFA Program at Colorado State University. Elizabeth Robinson is the author of the poetry books Three Novels, Counterpart, and Blue Heron. She is also the author of the hybrid essay/memoir/poetry book, On Ghosts. She co-edits Instance Press and Pallaksch.Pallaskch, a literary annual. Laynie Browne is the author of nine collections of poetry and two novels. Recent books include Roseate, Points of Gold, and The Ivory Hour. She is co-editor of I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. Srikanth Reddy is the author of two books of poetry, Facts for Visitors and Voyager, and a scholarly study, "Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry." He is currently an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Chicago.
10:30 am to 11:45 am
Robert Muroff Bookfair Stage, Washington State Convention Center, Level 4	F143. New Poetry from Omnidawn Publishing. (Craig Santos Perez,  Julie Carr,  Gillian Conoley,  Endi Bogue Hartigan,  Karla Kelsey) Please join us for a reading to celebrate Omnidawn’s Spring 2014 poetry titles! The Moderator will be Craig Santos Perez, who will say a few words about Omnidawn. Q&A will follow the readings. Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guåhan/Guam. He is the author of from unincorporated territory [hacha] and from unincorporated territory [saina]. He is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa. Gillian Conoley's seventh collection is Peace. She also has a new translation of Henri Michaux, Thousand Times Broken: Three Books by Henri MIchaux, coming out this year. She is professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Sonoma State University, where she edits Volt. Endi Bogue Hartigan is author of pool [5 choruses], selected for the 2012 Omnidawn Open Poetry Book prize, and One Sun Storm, which won the 2008 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared in Chicago Review, Verse, Volt, Pleiades, Peep/Show, and Colorado Review. Karla Kelsey is author of three volumes of poetry: Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary, Iteration Nets, and A Conjoined Book. Along with editing and writing reviews for the Constant Critic she is co-editor of Split Level Texts. She teaches in the creative writing program at Susquehanna University.
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Scott James Bookfair Stage, Washington State Convention Center, Level 4	F176. A Shapelesse Flame: The Nature of Poetry and Desire . (Gerard Woodward,  Tim Liardet,  Carrie Etter,  Danielle Pafunda,  Arielle Greenberg) Desire, said Coleridge, is the reflex of our earthly frame. But when it comes to the writing of contemporary poetry, exactly what is the nature of desire? Is a successful poem an example of life’s longing for itself, driven by independent will? How is the energy of a poem like human desire itself? How can human desire best be expressed in poetry? This panel of two American poets and two UK poets will attempt to engage in a dialogue on these important questions. Gerard Woodward’s novels include Nourishment, August, and I’ll Go to Bed at Noon, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is also a poet (winner of a Somerset Maugham Award and twice shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize) and is Professor of Fiction at Bath Spa University, England. Tim Liardet is the author of nine collections of poetry, including To the God of Rain, The Blood Choir, Priest Skear, and The Storm House. He has reviewed poetry for many UK journals including The Guardian, PN Review, and Poetry Review. He is professor of Poetry at Bath Spa University Carrie Etter, the author of three collections of poetry, The Tethers, Divining for Starters, and Imagined Sons, edited Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets. She is senior lecturer (associate professor) in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Danielle Pafunda's books of poetry include Manhater, Iatrogenic: Their Testimonies, My Zorba, and the forthcoming Natural History Rape Museum. She teaches at the University of Wyoming. Arielle Greenberg is co-author of Home/Birth: A Poemic; author of My Kafka Century and Given; and co-editor of three anthologies, including Gurlesque. She  teaches in the University of Tampa MFA and out of her home, and writes a column on poetics for the American Poetry Review.
Room 302, Western New England MFA Annex, Level 3	F195. William Stafford Centennial. (Kim Stafford,  Brian Turner,  Toi Derricotte,  Coleman Barks) William Stafford was one of the most important American poets of the last half of the 20th century. As a conscientious objector during World War II, he began a daily ritual of writing and an ongoing commitment to justice that have helped define the role of poet. He became a National Book Award winner, a Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and a beloved teacher. In 2014, we celebrate 100 years of William Stafford. Hosted by Graywolf Press and Blue Flower Arts. Kim Stafford is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared; The Muses Among Us; and Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford. He directs the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College. Brian Turner (author of Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise; co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres) received a USA Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He directs the low-residency MFA at Sierra Nevada College. Toi Derricotte's most recent book is the Undertaker's Daughter. Her honors include the 2012 Paterson Poetry Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement and the 2012 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review and the Paris Review. She co-founded Cave Canem in 1996. Coleman Barks has taught poetry and creative writing at the University of Georgia for thirty years. He is the author of numerous Rumi translations. His work with Rumi was the subject of an hour-long segment in Bill Moyers's Language of Life series on PBS, and he is a featured poet and translator in Bill Moyers's poetry special, "Fooling with Words." His own books of poetry include Winter Sky: Poems 1968-2008.
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Room 615/616/617, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6	F223. In Your Next Letter I Wish You’d Say: Epistolary Impulse and Innovation. (Jenny Browne,  Mark Jarman,  Paul Guest,  Laynie Browne,  Idra Novey) While Congress and the U.S. Postal Service debate ending Saturday delivery and many mourn the lost art of letter writing, contemporary poets continue to explore and expand the artful possibilities of writing in the epistolary mode. These panelists investigate exciting variations of poetic correspondence, including collaboration, homage, and performance, as well as discuss their own epistolary processes, influences, and teaching strategies. Jenny Browne's most recent collection of poems is Dear Stranger. The recipient of a 2013 NEA Literature Fellowship, she teaches at Trinity University. Mark Jarman is the author of Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems. He has also published two books of essays about poetry, The Secret of Poetry and Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry. He is Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Paul Guest is the author of three volumes of poetry and a memoir. His poems have appeared in Harper's, the Paris Review, and Poetry. Recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, he teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia. Laynie Browne is the author of nine collections of poetry and two novels. Recent books include Roseate, Points of Gold, and The Ivory Hour. She is co-editor of I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. Idra Novey is the author of Exit, Civilian, selected by Patricia Smith for the 2011 National Poetry Series, and The Next Country. Her work has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered, in Poetry, and Slate. Her most recent translation is Clarice Lispector's The Passion According to G.H.
Room 302, Western New England MFA Annex, Level 3	F230. Mixed Methods: Collaboration Between Visual Art and Contemporary Poetry. (Allison Campbell,  Cole Swensen,  Timothy Liu,  Bianca Stone,  Brandon Downing) When poetry and image intersect, what changes occur in both art forms? How is the artist’s process, and the reader’s experience altered when poetry and image enter into conversation with each other? Panelists will explore these questions and discuss how the two art forms can compliment, complete, and even translate each other. Poets who have published collaborative projects, or created poetry that incorporates self-made visuals, will discuss their work. Allison Campbell is associate editor for the Mississippi Review and a PhD candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers. She is currently at work on a collection of poems, individual pieces of which have appeared in Witness, Armchair/Shotgun, and Harpur Palate. Cole Swensen is the author of fourteen books of poetry and a book of critical essays, and the co-editor of the anthology American Hybrid. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, she is also a translator and won the 2004 PEN/USA Award in Translation. She teaches in Literary Arts at Brown University. Timothy Liu is the author of ten books of poems, including the forthcoming Don't Go Back To Sleep and Let It Ride, as well as a hybrid novel, Kingdom Come. He is a Professor of English at William Paterson University. Bianca Stone, the author of several poetry chapbooks, is the illustrator of Antigonick, a collaboration with Anne Carson. Her first full-length collection of poetry Someone Else’s Wedding Vows is forthcoming from Tin House/Octopus Books. Brandon Downing is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, The Shirt Weapon (2002), Dark Brandon (2005), and Mellow Actions (2013). Lake Antiquity, a monograph of poetic collages from 1996-2008, was released in 2010.
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Room LL4, Western New England MFA Annex, Lower Level	F259. When Genres Collide: Teaching Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction. (Katie Manning,  Hadara Bar-Nadav,  Forrest Roth,  Tyrone Jaeger,  John Talbird) The collision of prose poetry and flash fiction can provide productive and challenging points of discussion and inspiration in the multi-genre classroom. What can prose poetry teach flash fiction? How can theories of narrative inform understandings of prose poetry? Join our panel of writer-teachers for a discussion about how to navigate the sometimes blurry boundary between prose poetry and flash fiction in the undergraduate classroom. Katie Manning is the author of three poetry chapbooks: The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman, I Awake in My Womb, and Tea with Ezra. She is an assistant professor of English at Azusa Pacific University. Hadara Bar-Nadav, the author of Lullaby (with Exit Sign), The Frame Called Ruin, and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight,  is co-author of Writing Poems, 8th ed. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Forrest Roth graduated with an English PhD in Creative Writing from University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2013 and is currently a senior lecturer at Niagara University in Niagara Falls, New York. Tyrone Jaeger is the author of The Runaway Note. His fiction is published in the Oxford American, West Branch Wired, the Literary Review, and Southern Humanities Review. Since 2008, he has been on the faculty of Hendrix College, where he is an assistant professor of English/Creative Writing. John Duncan Talbird’s fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, South Carolina Review, New Walk, and Amoskeag. An English professor at Queensborough Community College, he has held writing residencies at VCCA and LMCC.
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
Aspen Room, Sheraton Seattle, 2nd Floor	F268. This Assignment is so Gay: Managing Your Queerness in Your Classroom. (Megan Volpert,  Meg Day,  Edward Madden,  Daniel Nathan Terry,  Arielle Greenberg) This panel brings together a diverse bunch of self-identified LGBTIQ teachers to discuss how that identity operates within pedagogical spaces. When is it appropriate to come out to students or administrators? Is this facet of one's identity helpful or hurtful in applying for teaching positions or in mentoring students? How does it dialogue with a teacher's own writing practices or other aspects of a teacher's public persona? The panelists will turn a queer eye to their professional success. Megan Volpert is the author of four books on communication and popular culture, most notably about Andy Warhol. She has been teaching high school English in Atlanta for the better part of a decade. Meg Day is a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry. A 2012 AWP Intro Journals Award winner, she has also received fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, Hedgebrook, and Squaw Valley Writers. She is currently a PhD fellow in Poetry & Disability Poetics at the University of Utah. Ed Madden is an associate professor of English and director of Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of two books of poetry and a study of modernism. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2007 and The Book of Irish American Poetry. Daniel Nathan Terry is the author of two books of poetry: Waxwings and Capturing the Dead. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in numerous publications, including Cimarron Review, New South, and Poet Lore. He serves on the advisory board of One Pause Poetry and teaches English at UNCW. Arielle Greenberg is co-author of Home/Birth: A Poemic; author of My Kafka Century and Given; and co-editor of three anthologies, including Gurlesque. She lives in Maine and teaches in the University of Tampa MFA and out of her home, and writes a column on poetics for the American Poetry Review.
Saturday, March 1, 2014 View Full Schedule
10:30 am to 11:45 am
Room 2B, Washington State Convention Center, Level 2	S139. Research in the Workshop: Teaching Documentary Literature. (Joseph Harrington,  Cole Swensen,  Jena Osman,  Eleni Sikelianos,  Susan M. Schultz) Historical literature has become more popular in recent years in all genres, and it is showing up in more college literature courses. But how can we integrate historical research into the workshop? How does such work change our understanding of the nature of conducting research and of creative writing pedagogy? These questions will be addressed by panelists who are teachers and writers of research-based literature. Joseph Harrington is the author of Things Come On (an amneoir), a Rumpus magazine Poetry Book Club selection; the critical work Poetry and the Public; and the chapbook Earth Day Suite. Cole Swensen is the author of fourteen books of poetry and a book of critical essays, and the co-editor of the Norton anthology American Hybrid. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, she is also a translator and won the 2004 PEN/USA Award in Translation. She teaches in Literary Arts at Brown University. Jena Osman's most recent books of poetry include Public Figures and The Network, selected for the 2009 National Poetry Series. She teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Temple University in Philadelphia. Eleni Sikelianos is the author of a hybrid memoir The Book of Jon and seven books of poetry, most recently The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead. She has been the recipient of numerous awards for her writing, including a National Endowment for the Arts grant and the National Poetry Series. Susan M. Schultz is author of several volumes of poetry and poetic prose, including most recently, Dementia Blog, Memory Cards: 2010-2011 Series, and She's Welcome to Her Disease: Dementia Blog, Volume Two. She founded Tinfish Press in 1995.
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Room 101, Western New England MFA Annex, Level 1	S190. The Myth of the Inaccessible: Teaching Experimental Poetry in the Community. (Laura Walker,  Dana Teen Lomax,  Douglas Kearney,  Hoa Nguyen) Poetry that may refuse a coherent I, eschew narrative, play with language as material, or otherwise subvert notions of traditional poetry is often deemed "inaccessible" or "academic." What happens when these poetries are taught in community or K-12 programs? Five poets will talk about their great success teaching innovative poetry outside the academy, their pedagogy, student responses, and their compelling rationales for their practice. Laura Walker has been teaching community poetry classes at UC Berkeley Extension since 2004. She also teaches in the MFA program at University of San Francisco. She is the author of four books of poetry: Follow-Haswed; bird book; rimertown/ an atlas; and swarm lure. Dana Teen Lomax edited the SPT project, Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, & Songs for Children. She has written several books including Disclosure, Curren¢y, and Room, and she co-edited Letters to Poets with Jennifer Firestone. She teaches at San Francisco State & Marin Juvenile Hall. Douglas Kearney (poet/performer/librettist) teaches in CalArts’ School of Critical Studies and has taught in the Theater and Music schools. A Whiting award winner, his second collection, The Black Automaton, was a National Poetry Series selection. His operas include Sucktion and Crescent City. Hoa Nguyen lives in Toronto, Ontario where she teaches poetics and creative writing in a private, virtual and in-person workshop and at Ryerson University. She is the author of eight books and chapbooks, most recently the full-length collection of poems As Long As Trees Last.
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Patricia Olson Bookfair Stage, Washington State Convention Center, Level 4	S206. Jack Kerouac School 40th Anniversary Reading. (Andrea Rexilius,  Michelle Naka Pierce,  J'Lyn Chapman,  Anne Waldman) Come celebrate the 40th anniversary of Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics! Andrea Rexilius has authored two books of poetry: Half of What They Carried Flew Away and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation. She is a member of the Poets’ Theater group, Girls Assembling Something Perpetual. She coordinates the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School. Michelle Naka Pierce is the author of four books of poetry, including: Continuous Frieze Bordering Red, awarded the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize; She, A Blueprint; and Beloved Integer. She currently teaches in and directs the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. J’Lyn Chapman is a Visiting Instructor at the Jack Kerouac School. She is the author of a chapbook of prose poems, Bear Stories, and her essays have been published in American Letters & Commentary and Conjunctions. She is earning a well-being coaching certificate through the Anthropedia Foundation. Anne Waldman is the author of more than forty books, including Fast Speaking Woman and Vow to Poetry, a collection of essays, and The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment, an epic poem and twenty-five-year project. With Allen Ginsberg, she co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, where she is a Distinguished Professor of Poetics. She received a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award, and she has recently been appointed a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Room 608, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6	S211. But Is It Any Good? Appropriation and Evaluation. (Jessica Burstein,  Brian Reed,  Marjorie Perloff,  Danny Snelson,  Craig Dworkin) Contemporary poets frequently “borrow” other people’s words. They employ appropriation, collage, sampling, and outright plagiarism. What do we make, though, of all this copying, cutting, and pasting? Is lifting text from a Web page or retyping a novel over Twitter in any way comparable to sitting down and trying to put "the best words in the best order" (Coleridge)? And when writers “steal” instead of “write,” how can we tell a good poem from a bad one? What criteria should we use? Jessica Burstein teaches literature at the University of Washington. Brian M. Reed is a professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. In addition to writing more than twenty articles about modern poetry, he has published three books, most recently Nobody's Business: 21st-Century Avant-Garde Poetics and co-edited two essay collections. Marjorie Perloff is professor emerita of English, Stanford University and Florence R. Scott Professor of English Emerita, University of Southern California. Author of fifteen books, she is the editor of others on the general subject of 20th-Century Poetry and Poetics. Danny Snelson is a writer, editor, and archivist working on a dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania. His online editorial work can be found in Eclipse, PennSound, UbuWeb, and through the Reissues project on Jacket2. Craig Dworkin is the author of five books of poetry, numerous chapbooks, and two book-length critical studies. He has also edited five collections. Currently teaching literature at the University of Utah, he serves as senior editor to the online digital archive Eclipse.
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
Room 400, Washington State Convention Center, Level 4	S265. Uncreative & Unoriginal: Notes on Conceptual Writing. (Devon Wootten,  Catherine Wagner,  Marie Buck,  Noah Eli Gordon,  K. Silem Mohammad) The poet Kenneth Goldsmith posits conceptual writing as a response to the digitization of language. For Goldsmith, the unparalleled linguistic materiality of our digital age necessitates a different conception of the "poetic.” In contrast to more traditional poetics, conceptual writing de-centers the writing subject with strategies such as collage, excision, and appropriation. This panel asks what conceptual writing might teach us about beauty, originality, and the creative process. Devon Wootten teaches at Whitman College. His poems have appeared in Fence, Aufgabe, and Colorado Review. He is currently ABD in the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Iowa. Catherine Wagner has published four books of poetry and various chapbooks. Her latest book is Nervous Device. She is part of the S(W)OP poetry and performance collective in southwest Ohio and professor of English in the MA program in creative writing at Miami University, Ohio. Marie Buck is the author of Life & Style and a chapbook, Amazing Weapons. Recent work has appeared in West Wind Review, OMG!, Rethinking Marxism, and online at Two Serious Ladies, and her work has been anthologized in Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing. K. Silem Mohammad is the author of several books of poetry, including Deer Head Nation, Breathalyzer, and The Front. He is a professor of English and Writing at Southern Oregon University.
8:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Ballroom E, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6	S284. A Reading by Jane Hirshfield and Sharon Olds, Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. (Jennifer Benka,  Jane Hirshfield,  Sharon Olds) The Academy of American Poets presents a reading by award-winning poets Jane Hirshfield and Sharon Olds who will read from their respective works. Hirshfield received the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Award in American Poetry in 2012. Her book Given Sugar, Given Salt was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Olds is the author of Stag's Leap, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013. Jennifer Benka, Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets, will introduce the readers. Jen Benka is the executive director of the Academy of American Poets. She worked previously as the managing director of Poets & Writers and for 826 National. She is the author of Pinko and A Box of Longing With Fifty Drawers. Jane Hirshfield is the author of several books of poetry, including Given Sugar, Given Salt, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, the New Yorker, Poetry, and seven editions of The Best American Poetry. She received the 2012 Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Award in American Poetry and fellowships from the NEA, Guggenheim, Rockefeller Foundations. She was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2012. Sharon Olds is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Stag's Leap, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize, and The Secret Thing. She has won the National Book Critics Circle Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. On the faculty of NYU’s Creative Writing Program, she is the founding director of the NYU writing workshop at Goldwater Hospital in New York City.